Louella Parsons adds: "Hollywood is sorry that the June Ruben-Bill Hawks romance has cooled and Bill's attentions are new directed toward the very beautiful Errol Flynn..."

June 38

Winchell knows that "Vernon Duke is trying to get himself finger-printed by admiring G-man Clyde Tolson's most baffling case, Anita Colby..."

March 39

Winchell tells: "Anita Colby, the most photo'd face and Claudia Morgan's ex-husband, have applied to the church for permission to merge..."

December 39

the International Building of the Rockefeller Center presents "The House of Outside Color," an exhibition of dream exteriors that six socially prominent people would prefer. Anita's choice: "roof of red-orange, flesh-pink clapboard walls, dubonnet shutters, and a big red orange door. (Miss Colby lives in an apartment.)"

Winchell hints: "Anita Colby will become a bride in about three months after a certain New Yorker's divorce is arranged in the South..."

June 41

Winchell tells "Anita Colby says it might be any day now..."

September 41

columnist Dorothy Kilgallen writes: "Anita Colby is recuperating after an appendectomy in Polyclinic..."

January 42

is hailed New York's highest paid model

April 43

becomes a press agent for the movie Cover Girl: "Anita Colby, the most front-cover of all the mag models, will escort 15 of the loveliest in a special car to the coast on April 29th. They will be seen in the pic Cover Girl, which will cost $1,500,000 to film... These models will live under one roof in Hollywood, and all will keep house, do the laundry, cook, etc... Because of the servant shortage there... La Colby, thrilled over her assignment, says: 'It's the first time I've been hired for my brains..."

Winchell reports: "The reason that Jean Negulesco looks so beautiful is his right arm decoration, Anita Colby, star Powers model..."

July 44

Winchell heralds: "Anita Colby, the darling of the Stork, Morocco and Colony set (who made the Powers girls famous), is now feminine director of the Selznick Studios..."

Louella Parsons knows: "Anita Colby leaves Saturday with Jennifer Jones for the third wedding anniversary New York premiere of Since You Went Away. Friday is Anita's birthday and Mrs. Richard Smart is giving her a dinner..."

August 44

Parsons reports her in Hollywood just back from New York saying "the Duke of Windsor appeared at the Southampton Beach Club wearing yellow slacks, green ascot and green shoes and the funny thing was the hostess, Mrs. Mayo, had the identical costume..."

will pen a non-fiction book for Random House. "The topic: her experiences as The Face..."

February 45

is reported entertaining 30 people at her home "and George Abbott proved to be the high spot of the evening doing a rhumba..."

2 March 45

while on location for Duel in the Sun, she is hospitalized at Tucson Medical Center with a mild case of pneumonia

Late March 45

is back from Tucson after her battle with pneumonia. "She did a Madame Pompadour and received a chosen few visitors in bed..."

April 45

Winchell thinks she stays blonde because "Clark Gable likes it that way..."

September 45

is noted at Charlie Morrison's bistro with her boss, David Selznick

October 45

Dorothy Kilgallen reports that "Clark Gable's fun making with Anita Colby has been sidetracked by Dolly O'Brien's arrival in Celluloid City. So poor Anita has nobody to take her to parties but Jimmy Stewart!..."

her escort at Elsa Maxwell's party is James Stewart

attends a private dinner with Noel Busch that’s given at Romanoff's by Bob Orr

Clark Gable spends his first evening back in town with her and the Howard Hawks at Slapsy Maxie's

November 45

columnist Sheila Graham reports from a grand Selznick premier at the Carthay Circle Theater: "Someone with a sense of humor placed Clark Gable and Dolly O'Brien immediately in front of Anita Colby and Jimmy Stewart at the local premier of Spellbound..."

Dorothy Kilgallen tells: "Natalie Thompson is being groomed quietly to replace Anita Colby as right-hand girl to David Selznick, She's on salary now, having nosed out Gloria Swanson for the coveted job."

July 47

Louella Parsons reports that Anita and "her ever devoted admirer from the East, was a guest at the Toyan Bay opening over the Fourth. There are those who believe that this gent will one day win out with the popular Miss Colby.."

columnist Edith Gwynn tells: "The long-time romance of Anita Colby and Maestro Skitch Henderson is suddenly ice-cold. Which will no doubt cause Frank Ryan who wants to buy her the world, pitch even harder. He's been trying for years..."

February 48

the press reports her leaving on a six-week tour to interest editors in The Emperor Waltz. "That shouldn't be difficult for Anita"

March 48

is among the guests of Jennifer Jones' birthday celebration in New York. She, Jennifer, Leland Hayward, Slim Hawks, John McLain, and David Selznik have dinner at the Colony, and then the entire party goes up to the Bronx for the bicycle races.

April 48

Edith Gwynn writes: "Colby's back - and Gable's got her! Saw Clark and Anita at le Papillon - and they went to Anne Baxter and John Hodiak's party together next night. Betcha he'll have most of her dates while she's in town. Couldn't happen to two dreamier people!"

17 June 48

dines at Ciro's with Clark Gable

June 48

attends a gay cocktail party with Clark Gable honoring Jimmy McHugh's 25-years in song business Gable

Dorothy Kilgallen reveals: "Dolly O'Brien's intimates hear she and Clark Gable had a long distance spat (over his attentions to Anita Colby) before Dolly sailed for Europe..."

July 48

columnist Hedda Hopper tells: "Anita Colby and her sister, Francine, have plans to go to Europe. Anita has a five-week vacation due her. She has had reservations twice before to go abroad but never made it. Once the war intruded and the second time a good job that she couldn't turn down came up. 'If anything happens now,' days Anita, 'I'll just have to spend the vacation with my family in Southampton.'"

Billy Wilder gives himself a welcome party at Mocambo with Clark Gable, Anita Colby and the Louis Jourdans among the "welcomers"

Early August 48

columnist Dorothy Manners tells: "Anita Colby at Ciro's with Jimmy Stewart seems to be getting almost as steady as Anita Colby with Clark Gable..."

Dorothy Kilgallen reports: "Anita Colby, so frequently linked with Clark Gable, may surprise her famous beau and the reading public by marrying Frank Ryan in Europe, with her sister, Francine Counihan, as matron of honor. Ryan, wealthy and eligible, has been Anita's most persistent suitor for several years, and it was more than coincidence that he went over on the same liner as the two beautiful sisters..."

there are rumors she had a rendezvous arranged with an Italian nobleman before she sailed across

7 September 48

arrives in Southampton, England, aboard the Queen Elizabeth

September 48

Frank Ryan is reported having given her a gorgeous pair of diamond earrings. "Anita and sister Francine are being followed all over Europe by Ryan. They hope for an audience with the Pope before coming home."

Late September 48

she and her sister return on the Queen Elizabeth. Immediately afterwards, Millie Considine takes them to a party Captain Ford gives in Rita Hayworth's honor.

29 September 48

resigns as assistant to Henry Ginsberg, head of Paramount Studio

30 September 48

announces in Hollywood that she’ll quit as movie executive and to go into import-export business. She says her business, Colby, Inc., will operate in Los Angeles and New York and is backed by New York financiers.

October 48

Clark Gable returns from New York and takes her out for a "quiet dinner"

November 48

columnist Erskine Johnson announces: "Anita Colby, ‘The Face,’ is on her way in Italy to marry a very wealthy man whose name she will not reveal. The reason fore Anita's secrecy, I'm told, is that she heard that Arline Judge would be on the same boat..."

June 49

Louella Parsons writes that Anita didn't wait for the Jennifer Jones-David Selznick wedding. "She is back in New York. She was met by Lou Alter, the composer, who has been in love with her for a long time..."

Dorothy Kilgallen adds: "Anita Colby and Lou Alter have a look that would seem orange-blossomy if Anita weren't such a confirmed bachelor girl..."

August 49

she and Frank Ryan are reported together again "this time at Southampton..."

December 49

Dorothy Kilgallen knows: "Wall Streeter Frank Ryan, once linked with Anita Colby, is currently concentrating on the former Mrs. Neal Vanderbilt, Jr...."

February 50

columnist Earl Wilson considers her and Lou Alter "a daily double"

columnist Leonard Lyons reports that she and her sister "went to England aboard the Cunard liner on which Winston Churchill was returning home..."

May 50

goes to London "to write and do publicity..."

December 50

is mentioned in the New York Dress Institute's annual poll of the 10 Best Dressed Women of the Year even though not making it among the first 10

January 51

she and Jerry Gordon of Wall Street are reported "Meeting Each Other More Than Half Way..."

April 51

columnist Earl Wilson knows: "Egyptian cotton tycoon Roger Aghion and Anita Colby are on the edge of the ledge..."

May 51

is reported having "another Egyptian escort, importer Jelardin

July 51

says: "Clark and I are awfully good friends. But there's no romance. I have no heart interest now."

September 51

Winchell knows: "The Lido set is betting Anita Colby (one of America's loveliest ads in Yurrop) will blend with wealthy Egyptian Roger Aghion after his abrogation. They're inseparable..."

22 September 51

arrives in New York from Paris

52

supports General Eisenhower in his presidential campaign

8 December 52

is among six women presented with awards for "distinguished achievement in their chosen fields of endeavor" by the Fashion Division of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York

13 December 52

attends the Knickerbocker Ball held at the Waldorf Astoria

November 53

is seen at the Carlyle with British director Carol Reed

January 54

visits "her good friends" Edgar J. Hoover and Clyde Tolson at the FBI Building in Washington, D.C.

February 56

is reported inseparable with Jerry Gordon in Nassau

October 56

her former suitor, Frank Ryan, is reported having "caught up with Ava Gardner in Spain..."

April 57

Walter Winchell tells that she's now president of Women's News Service

June 58

will spend the summer making a celebrity-studded tour of Europe. "Her itinerary includes houseguesting with Princess Grace of Monaco and painting with Marc Chagall..."

January 60

becomes member of the rotating panel of the prestigious American Institute of Approval, Inc.

Hedda Hopper expects her to marry Gordon, "her New York advertising man," in June or July

December 62

Dorothy Kilgallen reports: "The most animated conversationalists at the Boite of the St. Regis the other lunch time were Anita Colby and Serge Obolensky. Eaves droppers couldn't discover the topic of their conversation, but they were dying to, because the pair seemed to be having such a wonderful time..."

is reported planning her own TV series about the modeling business

January 63

is named one of 1962's best dressed fashion personalities

27 July 63

attends the Dior fashion show at the Maison Dior in Paris

65

resides in New York

March 65

is noted at the big race in Santa Anita accompanied by Bob Hope and his wife Dolores

April 65

is seen at Carol Channing’s annual bash for Jack Benny and George Burns at the Rainbow Grill in New York

May 66

is seen at Jilly's with Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Van Johnson

1 February 66

is seen dancing the frug with Emilio Pucci, Italian designer, at a party given in his honor in Acapulco, Mexico

in a deep pink Oscar de la Renta, she dances with Serge Obolensky at a celebrity midnight champagne supper held in the Americana Hotel Ballroom

July 69

is among the guests at the celebrity opening of the roof garden of the St. Regis

10 August 70

announces she will marry Palen Flagler, vice-president J. P. Stevens & Co. in September at the retirement home of her father in Madrid, Spain. Flagler, a graduate of Colgate University, joined Stevens in 1952 as advertising manager, and in 1958 was named director of advertising and public relations.

October 70

is expected to attend the star-studded Nine O'Clock's Winter Ball gala held at the Plaza on December 1

30 December 70

marries Isaac Palen Flagler, Jr., in the garden of Madeleine Gilpatrick's Park Avenue town house in New York City. He's 58, she's 56. Afterwards, she and Palen fly to Madrid to spend New Year's Eve with her father, who recently went blind in one eye. Columnist Suzy reports: "After that, it will be Paris and London and parties and friends and all the rest of it."

April 71

as Anita Colby Flagler, she's reported being a devout Catholic wife of a rich and successful businessman. The Flaglers divide their time between Manhattan and a 50-acre fieldstone estate in Stockton, New Jersey. "Her clothes are always by Givenchy and Gus Tassell. One week she's with the Bob Hopes in Beverly Hills. The next she's off to Adele Astair's estate in Lismore, Ireland - near Killnarney."

March 76

she and Flagler are among the guests of Mrs. Dennison Slater's birthday party thrown by Mrs. Donald Decoursey Harrington of Arizona and Texas, widow of a multimillionaire oilman and industrialist

May 78

she and Flagler are reported entertaining stage actress Ruth Zuckermann at their farm in New Jersey

March 84

becomes the widow of Flagler, who dies at age 72 in Oyster Bay, New York